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Elena Brower

Mama, founder and co-owner of VIRAYOGA, and co-author of Art of Attention, Elena has taught yoga for 16+ years. After graduating from Cornell University in 1992 with a design degree, she worked as a textile and apparel designer for 6 years, and has studied with master yoga teachers for over 10 years. Through her teaching, influenced by several traditions including alignment-based Hatha and Kundalini yoga, Elena offers yoga as a way to approach our world with realistic reverence and gratitude. Her classes are a masterful, candid blend of artful alignment and attention cues for your body, mind and heart.

From the Museum of Modern Art to the Great Lawn at Central Park, from the playa at Burning Man to the Eiffel Tower, Elena is honoured to offer larger-scale experiences of yoga, but her true service is in shifting awareness within the smallest interactions; one family, one household at a time. As a coach with the Handel Group, she coaches individuals and teaches courses, and she's been featured in the New York Times, Yoga Journal, Element Yoga for Beginners DVDs, ABC News and NBC News. As the Executive Producer of On Meditation, she is curating a docuseries of short films about the relevance of meditation and its benefits. Her first book, Art of Attention, co-authored with Erica Jago, was released in December 2012. Along with her own writings, Elena contributes to Yoga Journal, Yoga International, Huffington Post, Positively Positive, The Chalkboard Mag, DailyLove, and Elephant Journal, and is an original board member of YogaEarth. Elena's recently developed an essential oil blend called GIVE that proudly benefits Women For Women International, currently developing another blend to benefit Every Mother Counts. www.elenabrower.com www.artofattention.com

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Create Space Between You & Your Bad Mood
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Level 1
15 min
Meditation
Elena Brower | May 14 2013

Create Space Between You & Your Bad Mood - You are not your bad mood, and this meditation is a simple, perfect way to create space between your heart a...more

Accept & Strengthen
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level 1-2
45 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Apr 30 2013

Accept & Strengthen - A simple practice of acceptance and strengthening. Standing practice, interspersed with backbends and healing, mindful twists. A nice...more

Soften What Feels Unchangeable
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Level 2
90 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Apr 16 2013

Soften What Feels Unchangeable - As we develop our relationship to ourselves, we use this practice to open our bones, open our minds and soften what feel...more

Unshakeable Self-Esteem
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Level 1
15 min
Meditation
Elena Brower | Apr 15 2013

Unshakeable Self-Esteem - This meditation uses sound and breathing as a means to raise your frequency, and create a connection to your self-esteem that is...more

Your Most Radiant Self
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level 1-2
30 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Apr 12 2013

Your Most Radiant Self - Thank you Annie Carpenter for your inspiration. Usher in your most radiant, quiet, regal self, standing strong and expanding stea...more

Soothing & Strong Menopause Practice
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level 1-2
60 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Apr 11 2013

Soothing & Strong Menopause Practice - Calming, soothing, yet strong practice for menopause, this sequence includes poses that will balance and recalib...more

Slow the Aging Process
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Level 1
15 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Apr 09 2013

Slow the Aging Process - This short practice, a combination of short meditation kriyas and one cursory but effective core exercise, is dedicated to rejuve...more

Trust in Yourself
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Level 2
60 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Apr 07 2013

Trust in Yourself - Being The Prayer: we are the prayer, the one who prays, and the one who answers. This sequence of prayerful, repetitive standing poses,...more

Trying to Conceive?
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level 1-2
45 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Apr 06 2013

Trying to Conceive? - Whether you are trying to conceive a child, a project, or a creative endeavor, this practice will help you embrace your identity, cul...more

Connect to Yourself, Connect to Each Other
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Level 2
60 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Apr 05 2013

Connect to Yourself, Connect to Each Other - "There are women everywhere, this moment, loving their children as you are, frustrated as you are, prayin...more

Tap Into Your Divine Energy
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Level 2
30 min
Vinyasa Flow
Elena Brower | Apr 03 2013

Tap Into Your Divine Energy - A supersweet flow for women. We are instruments of Divine energy; with this practice, we meet in the heart. Expect core wor...more

Find Length & Balance
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level 1-2
45 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Apr 02 2013

Find Length & Balance - Using the wall for resistance and rebound, a nurturing sequence of standing postures and seated postures. Noticing any disorientin...more

Clear Interior Space, Practice Reverence
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Level 2
60 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Mar 19 2013

Clear Interior Space, Practice Reverence - With this deep hip-opening sequence, we strengthen our feet and legs, deeply open our hips and install respe...more

Cultivate Thankfulness During Your Cycle
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level 1-2
45 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Mar 05 2013

Cultivate Thankfulness During Your Cycle - The time of our cycle is a chance to reconnect to ourselves, and to release what no longer serves us in orde...more

Meditation for Stressed Parents
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Level 1
20 min
Meditation
Elena Brower | Feb 19 2013

Meditation for Stressed Parents - Parents: so often we're tasked to respond to volatile external circumstances, and we lose touch with our own internal ...more

Balance Your Glandular System
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level 1-2
90 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Feb 05 2013

Balance Your Glandular System - This class brings a homeopathic dose of meditative movements to Hatha postures, bringing awareness and balance to your gl...more

See More Clearly
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Level 1
10 min
Meditation
Elena Brower | Jan 22 2013

See More Clearly - Inspired by Erich Schiffman's talk at the 2011 Ojai Yoga Crib, this meditation is about creating space for "seeing" our children, and OU...more

Create a Quiet Presence in Your Bones
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level 1-2
90 min
Hatha
Elena Brower | Jan 08 2013

Create a Quiet Presence in Your Bones - This nourishing sequence creates quiet presence in our bones. Following the energetic meridians, we travel thro...more